Barack Obama
The $100 million windfall that quickly turned from a blessing into a curse
With Barack Obama and Ellen DeGeneres plugging the cause, donations poured into a bushfire emergency fund. Infighting followed.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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‘I don’t know if they’re real’: Trump tells agencies to release files on aliens, UFOs
The directive came after the US leader accused Barack Obama of disclosing “classified information” when the former president recently suggested extraterrestrials existed.
- Michelle L. Price
Seven pivotal moments in Jesse Jackson’s life
Once tipped as the man most likely to become America’s first black president, Jesse Jackson was an inspirational leader to millions in the US civil rights movement.
- Neil Vigdor
Obama conspiracy theorist to address Australian conservative summit
American filmmaker and Infowars regular Joel Gilbert is speaking this week at Advance’s new conference in Sydney along with former prime minister Tony Abbott and Victorian MP Moira Deeming.
- Michael Koziol
Aliens are real, Obama says, as Washington shrugs
While the former president’s off-the-cuff comments to a podcast generated the usual social media heat, they reflect a growing consensus belief in the paranormal.
- Dan Diamond
Obama breaks silence after racist video shared by Trump account
The former US president says most Americans find the current level of political discourse “deeply troubling”.
- Opinion
- Trump's America
Trump’s Obama derangement syndrome drags him to a new low
Trump’s team should note that Americans do care that their boss is a racist and off his rocker. He taunts his foes in crude, creepy ways and tries to tattoo his name on everything.
- Maureen Dowd
- Analysis
- Trump's White House
Trump’s Obama video was horrifically racist. But there was another dangerous detail
Under this US president, the bar for standards of public discourse has plunged so low, there is no longer an expectation that such actions will trigger any consequences.
- Michael Koziol
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- US politics
‘I didn’t make a mistake’: Trump won’t apologise for racist post depicting Obamas as apes
In a rare backdown, the US president deleted the social media post after a furious backlash, including from a Republican who branded it “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House”.
- Michael Koziol
MAGA influencers urge Trump to kill Netflix deal over streamer’s Obama ties
The right-wing commentators’ push to paint Netflix as aligned with Democrats and a liberal agenda adds to a swirl of controversy and intrigue circling what would be one of the largest media mergers in recent history.
- Will Oremus and Scott Nover